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Domain Kingdom Phylum Class Order Family Genus Species Rarely used categories

Genus Natronosporangium

Name: Natronosporangium Sorokin et al. 2025

Category: Genus

Proposed as: gen. nov.

Etymology: Na.tro.no.spo.ran’gi.um. N.L. neut. n. natron, arbitrarily derived from Arabic natrun or natron, soda; Gr. fem. n. spora, a seed, a spore; Gr. neut. n. angeîon, vessel; N.L. neut. n. Natronosporangium, a sodaloving organism with finger-shaped, spore-containing vessels (sporangia)

Gender: neuter (stem: Natronosporangi-)

Type species: Natronosporangium hydrolyticum Sorokin et al. 2025

Conduct genome-based taxonomy of genus at TYGS

16S rRNA gene: Analyse FASTA

Effective publication: Sorokin DY, Elcheninov AG, Khijniak TV, Zaharycheva AP, Boueva OV, Ariskina EV, Bunk B, Sproer C, Evtushenko LI, Kublanov IV, et al. Natronosporangium hydrolyticum gen. nov., sp. nov., a haloalkaliphilic polyhydrolytic actinobacterium from a soda solonchak soil in Central Asia. Syst Appl Microbiol 2022; 45:126307.

IJSEM list: Oren A, Göker M. Validation list no. 223. List of new names and new combinations previously effectively, but not validly, published. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2025; 75:6699.

Nomenclatural status: validly published under the ICNP

Taxonomic status: correct name

Subdivision:

Number of child taxa with a validly published and correct name: 1
Number of child taxa with a validly published name, including synonyms: 1
Total number of child taxa: 1

Parent taxon: Micromonosporaceae Krassilnikov 1938 (Approved Lists 1980)

Assigned by: Sorokin DY, Elcheninov AG, Khijniak TV, Zaharycheva AP, Boueva OV, Ariskina EV, Bunk B, Sproer C, Evtushenko LI, Kublanov IV, et al. Natronosporangium hydrolyticum gen. nov., sp. nov., a haloalkaliphilic polyhydrolytic actinobacterium from a soda solonchak soil in Central Asia. Syst Appl Microbiol 2022; 45:126307.

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Record number: 65735
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